We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.